# blow off
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

blow off (third-person singular simple present blows off, present participle blowing off, simple past blew off, past participle blown off)
* (transitive, literally) To remove something by blowing on it.
    She blew the dust off the cookbook, revealing its full title.
** 1944 May and June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Soot Blowers”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:In order to deal with deposits of soot on boiler-tubes while running, especially if poor coal is in use, locomotives are often now provided with blowers on the firebox back-plate which can be made to discharge a jet of high pressure steam towards the firebox tubeplates; this has the effect of loosening and blowing off the soot deposits.
** 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity.
* (transitive) To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container.
    The radioactivity was released when they blew off steam from the containment vessel.
* (intransitive) To let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose.
    The engine or steamer is blowing off.
** 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:The 1 in 200 climb to Survilliers was surmounted with easy competence, the constant speed being just short of 60 m.p.h., the water level (by design) just under half a glass and the steam pressure approximately 275 lb/sq in, or near the blowing-off point.
* (intransitive, euphemistic, UK, Australia) Synonym of fart.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:flatulate
    Please avoid blowing off while we're in church.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
    Synonym: dick around (vulgar)
    I decided to blow off the meeting and leave early.
    We've both been blowing off Peter all day: he's really boring.
** (transitive) To abandon (someone) as the last stage of a scam.
** (transitive) To reject or shut down someone's sexual advances or other offers (e.g. a job offer).
* (transitive) To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device.
    Her leg was blown off by a landmine.
* To force to leave a course.
    The storm blew the ship off course.
** 1950 August, “The Rimutaka Incline and Deviation, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 547:This occurred on September 11, 1880, when a mixed train was blown off the track during a severe gale, and three passengers were killed.
* (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone).
* (intransitive, slang, dated) To buy food or drink for (someone); to treat (someone).
    I'll blow you off to dinner.
* (transitive, slang) To use up or spend (something).
    He blew off his inheritance on partying.

#### Derived terms

* blowjob
* blowoff (noun)
* blow-off (noun)
* blow off steam

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* bowl-off